Goldbeating, an age-old craft pioneered by ancient Egyptian artisans more than five millennia ago, involves the meticulous thinning of bulk gold into gossamer-like leaves. Throughout history, this ...

US-based researchers have replicated the ancient process of goldbeating at the nanoscale to compress tiny gold ingots into 2D leaf forms. Goldbeating is an age-old craft pioneered by ancient Egyptian ...

Deck: Foiling counterfeiters by putting some pizzazz in product packages. Story: The employees of Foilmark are helping to carry on an ancient craft. Just as medieval monks used gold leaf to decorate ...

Story: US-based researchers want to bring ancient Egyptian goldbeating technique to modern nanomanufacturing ...